Salim U. Shaikh's answerYes, such an allegation after years of your abandonment of job need to be formally asked by your and explained by your employer. Such allegations without any due process, investigation, formal exchange of memos entitle you for defamation and damages thereof through a court.

Erik Luthens' answerYou may have the grounds to go forward with a criminal complaint through the local county attorney’s office as well as a civil action against the man in question. I suggest that you immediately contact an attorney in Iowa who handles civil litigation.

Erik Luthens' answerIf the bank failed to take reasonable precautions to make its premises relatively safe, then you might have a claim worth pursuing. A significant issue is whether the robbery in question was reasonably foreseeable by the bank.

Erik Luthens' answerIn any legal malpractice case the primary issues are: (1) whether your attorney breached the standard of care or in other words, did something (or failed to do something) that an attorney in a similar situation would have done; and (2) whether your attorney’s error is a proximate cause of your damages, I.e., was your attorney’s error à substantially contributing factor to the bad result you obtained; and (3) had it not been for your attorney’s error, would you have likely succeeded on...

Salim U. Shaikh's answerLL has certain prerogative duly permitted by tenant to inspect, visit or show to any prospective buyer as is the case in hand. Otherwise you may give him a suitable time for visit.

Why not? There are so many things wrong with the facts of which you described, that I am not even sure where to begin, but let's limit the issues and see if I can shed some light on why-not.

Long Answer: First of all you didn't die. You lived. You are alive. And therefore you have no wrongful death suit for almost dying. In the eyes of the law, sort of dying is sort of like being almost...

Erik Steven Fisk's answerCriminal mischief, second degree is a Class D felony. Under Iowa Code 902.9(1)(e); "A class “D” felon, not an habitual offender, shall be confined for no more than five years, and in addition shall be sentenced to a fine of at least seven hundred fifty dollars but not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars."

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